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circles of bright apple-green, the one marginal and outside the 
tentacula, the other at some distance from the transverse and linear 
mouth. In the dark, the animal gave out a few dull flashes of 
phosphorescent light.” 
As belonging to this family, we present illustrations of F/abellum 
pavonium, Lesson (Fig. 61). 
Fig. 62,—Oculina virginea (Lamarck). 
Of the genus Ocwlina, the animal is unknown, but it is contained’ “: 
in regular round radiated cells, more or less prominent, and scattered. 
on the surface of .a solid, compact, fixed tree-like coral. The indi- 
viduals dispose themselves in ascending spiral lines, and appear to 
be regularly dispersed on the surface of the several branches. The 
typical species, O. virgenea (Fig. 62), formerly known as the White 
